January 3, 1959 – Alaska was admitted to the Union as the 49 the U. S. State.
January 5, 1925 – Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman governor inaugurated in the U.S.
January 6, 2021 - Vice President Mike Pence was to preside over the official process for counting the electoral college votes and certify the winner of the 2020 presidential election during a joint session of Congress. This peaceful transfer of presidential authority, the mainstay of the American democracy since 1800, was interrupted as thousands of people violently broke through police security and entered the Capitol. This was the first time that the Capitol had been breached on a large scale since the War of 1812 when British troops attacked the city.
January 7, 1714 – A patent was issued for the first typewriter designed by British inventor Henry Mull.